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The purpose of this study was to investigate senior citizens’ experiences of the isolation during the Coronavirus pandemic and their perspectives on their own role and identity during the same periodof time. The empirical data consisted of 15 articles which all expressed seniors’ viewpoints, published between 2020-03-16 and 2020-05-11 in ten different Swedish newspapers. The study’s methodological

Möllevången är en av de stadsdelar som i Polismyndighetens senaste trygghetsmätning avvek från den generella ökningen av upplevd trygghet bland Malmöinvånare. Stadsdelen har under de senare åren brottats med en lång rad vålds- och sexualbrott som har skett i den offentliga stadsmiljön. Denna studie ämnade därför till att försöka skapa medvetenhet kring hur kvinnors upplevelse av (o)trygghet ser ut

The aim of this study has been to shed light on former criminals' experiences of their own reintegration into society, and to gain a better insight of how social services and probation services has played a part in that process. The study is based on eight semi structured interviews with former criminals’ who are currently active in the organisation KRIS. In order to analyze our empirical mate

This is a qualitative study implemented through semi structured interviews involving seven young adults born in Sweden with parents born in other countries. The aim of this study is to examine how people born in Sweden with parents born in non-Nordic countries experienced their elementary school and if their foreign background affected their schooling and their current lives in some way. The concl

In 2020, a total of 25 000 sexual crimes were reported in Sweden. Rape crimes have increased by a total of 43 percent since 2011. A contributing reason for this increase might be that the propensity to report these kinds of crimes has changed. A phenomenon that may have had an impact on the propensity to report sexual crimes is the Metoo movement. The Metoo movement emphasizes that sexual abuse an

The Purpose of this study was to examine how family law secretaries describe children's participation in custody, housing and contact investigations before and after the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The results are analyzed by two theories, the room for maneuver for the bureaucrat at street level by Michael Lipsky and the participation model by Roger Hart. The e

The aim of this study has been to examine what former criminal women have experienced as contributing and challenging in desistance from crime. The study and its results are based on six qualitative semi-structured interviews with former criminal women. We have used a thematic analysis in order to analyze the empiricism and the result of this study. The result of this study shows six themes that h

Den här uppsatsen är en komparativ studie mellan originalmanuset till och slutversionen av filmen Joker (Todd Phillips, 2019), tillsammans med en djupgående undersökning av den instrumentala filmmusikens uppbyggnad utifrån Claudia Gorbman och Pauline Reays tankar om den instrumentala musikens roll i filmtexten. Baserat på resultaten av dessa analyser görs sedan en tolkning av filmen med utgångspunThis thesis is a comparative study of the original script for the film Joker (Todd Phillips, 2019) and the final cut of the film, along with a close examination of the structure of instrumental score for the film, using Claudia Gorbman and Pauline Reay’s ideas on the impact of the instrumental score on the film text. From the results of this analysis an interpretation of the film is then made, usi

Bostadsmarknaden har under en längre tid kantats av ett antal problem både på ägande- och hyresmarknaden. Majoriteten av landets kommuner rapporterar en rådande bostadsbrist och effektivitetsförlusten till följd av efterfrågeöverskottet beräknas till 10 miljarder kronor per år. Identifierade problem på bostadsmarknaden är avsaknaden av fungerande flyttkedjor, långa bostadsköer, höga bostadspriser The Swedish housing market has been pressured for a long time with a majority of Swedish municipalities reporting housing shortages. The efficiency loss due to unmet demand is estimated at 10 billion SEK annually. Identified obstacles on the housing market are lack of functioning vacancy chains, long housing queues, high prices and constraining legislation. In 2009, new legislation was introduced

Denna uppsats undersöker gemenskapens uttryck och möjligheter i ett allt mer digitaliserat landskap. I takt med att allt fler relationer och kommunikationer förflyttas till den digitala sfären väcks frågor om vilka förutsättningar det sociala sammanhanget har där. Studien analyserar digitala funktioner och strukturers villkor och förutsättningar för sociala praktiker. Uppsatsen utgörs av en fallst

The aim of this paper is to analyse the fieldwork that the British anthropologist Meyer Fortes conducted in the mid-thirties among the Tallensi-tribe in northern Ghana, then called British Gold Coast, a country that had been a European colony for several hundred years. It was not however until the early years of the 20th century that the British Empire, which had had control over the Gold Coast fo

Abstract This was a qualitative study about former criminals’ path to criminality and the study consisted of semi structured interviews with six former criminals. The aim of the study was to gain knowledge on why people turn to criminality. We asked our interviewees about what they thought were important factors in their path to criminality, as well as which factors they thought lacked during thei

Ex gratia betyder ”av nåd” och är en ersättning som regeringen kan bevilja utan att det finns lagstöd för rätt till ersättning. Det finns flera anledningar till en sådan ersättningsform. Det kan ex. vara så att samhället har ändrat värderingar och att en tidigare lagstiftning har drabbat vissa individer på ett sådant sätt att samhället i efterhand vill ta ansvar och genom en ekonomisk ersättning fEx gratia means ”of mercy” and can be granted by the government when they find it motivated to compensate individuals economically even though the individual has no rightful legal claim. Such compensation is motivated by various reasons. For instance it can be that society has gone through a change of values and that previous legislation as a result has affected some individuals in such a way that

The aim of this study is to explore the system of maintenance treatment for opiate addiction from a patient’s perspective. Six semi structured interviews were performed with persons who are or have been engaged in maintenance treatment. The majority of them had experienced discharge from the program. Our results show that discharge may result in harsh consequences; relapse in heroin use or other i

This thesis examines how the European Commission depoliticises TTIP, the free trade agreement currently negotiated by EU and the US government and what the consequences are. Taking on a discourse theoretical perspective on power, inspired by Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau, where language plays a central part, this thesis regards depoliticisation as a discursive phenomenon. As language according

The aim of this study was to describe and analyze the criminal gang members' experiences of the exit process. What we mean by the exit process is the way in and out of gang crime and the maintenance of the new role of non- criminal gangs.We have, through qualitative semi-structured interviews interviewed former criminal gang members and analyzed their experiences using Ebaughs (1988) theory ab

The following paper examines the arguments of two leading actors: USA and Russia with regards to military intervention in Syria before and after the chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburb Ghouta on August 21st, 2013. The purpose of the study is to identify if and in what ways the arguments changed after the attack and to identify which ideas regarding sovereignty dominated the actors’ argu

In recent years, the market for mobile applications has continuously grown in size, and appears to continue to grow. This means greater competition among app developing companies as the users expect applications with high usability and a great user experience. To assess these properties the companies can perform usability evaluations. However, practicing traditional usability evaluation methods ca

This bachelor thesis studies fashion photographs where drag queens are participating as models. It was aimed to explore how their function in the fashion context can be seen. Three cases from 2016, all from a North American context are used for the study. “Caged Heat” from Interview Magazine no. 3, 2016 where Violet Chachki can be seen as one of the models. “Walk in the Wild Side” from ODDA Magazi